As the LA housing search continues...
We found ourselves on the streets & out of money for a couple weeks due to the Beverly Hills swindle & the cost of staying in hotels. On day one on the streets, we both worked a night shift and spent the day sleeping in our storage unit, Day 2 was the Santa Monica/Venice beach night, sleeping in our tent & fighting a serious wind till the morning. On day 3 we fought with the wind again more severe in our tent at the Venice Graffiti walls on the beach & lost. We dramatically packed up fighting the wind the whole way & ended up camping not too far away in Penmar park. The good thing about this was that they had a bathroom available.
The hauk was out too that night it was so cold, I thought I was gonna die from hypothermia. I don't even know how I made it through the night. All I know is that I was not prepared for this! The universe carried me into day 4 & we both again worked the night shift. I worked from 10 pm until 6:30am, he worked from 8pm until 3am and came to my job and sat in the photo station until I got off. By the time day 5 came on 2/16/23, we had been calling 211, the emergency LA number for two days. Phones dying as we tried to stay on hold for 3 & 4 hours. We napped in storage after we were off work & I took a brief nap out of generally being overwhelmed in the dog park in Venice while smoking some herb & calling 211. This time we got through and was able to get a one night voucher & a Lyft ride to a hotel on Western and Slauson in South Central... I also napped in the Lyft as he touched up my notes for this post.
The hotel voucher🙌🏽
Oh do know that the story continues, I ended up in a Shelter in South Central... where was he?
Stay tuned😬
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Your making me wish I told or wrote down my story 🤦🏾♀️
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